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I've always loved this album, and after years of playing it, I still play it frequently. I do not hold it in quite as high esteem as Miles Davis' "Kind Of Blue," but Oliver Nelson's "Blues And The Abstract Truth" is way up there on my jazz favorites list.
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Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock RecordHere you go Paul http://www.amazon.com/Forgiveness-Record-Broken-Social-Scene/dp/B003BZXI2I/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1297709312&sr=1-1
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Child Is Father to the Man (Exp) [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]Blood Sweat & Tears | Format: Audio CD Here's another album that i never heard till now Al kooper over the last year is becoming one of my favorite artists. Thanks Lone Wolf for the cd's a while back of the different al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield bands
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Ed,That's a great album, and one of my all-time album covers.Paul
..On Disco 3000 and Media Dreams you have the chance to hear Sun Ra's music performed by a quartet, rather than his full Arkestra. Sun Ra was joined in Italy by saxophonist John Gilmore, trumpeter Michael Ray and drummer Luqman Ali. Sun Ra himself played piano and electronic keyboards, including a Crumar Mainman. The sparse instrumentation is based on extraordinary and worthy contrasts. ...The title track of Disco 3000 is taken from sections of concert performance: relatively open structures, with relatively few predetermined sections. Sun Ra steers the pieces with keyboard interventions. Melodic sections are introduced, evolve, are reprised. Most notably, bass patterns are used for lengthy sections - something new in Ra's music at this time. Most of the pieces are instant compositions, never to be repeated. The recognisable tunes do include one rare Ra composition ("Third Planet"), as well as the traditional "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" thinly disguised as "Dance of the Cosmo-Aliens". This whole Sun Ra quartet project from Italy in early 1978 has a particular 'experimental' feel, unique in a particular way in Sun Ra's huge and varied recorded output. Innovation is hardly unexpected from Sun Ra - his music regularly pushes the envelope. However, this project represents a tryout for a different kind of music altogether, a small-group music. In the end it was a musical path Sun Ra left unexplored,...http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=41195
...with a perfect mix of free jazz horns, minimalist electronics skittering in the background, and a progressive slant that even incorporates elements of electro-acoustic improv.Most notably significant on this release is the much-needed addition of Wadada Leo Smith's trumpet. While Evan Parker's saxophone sounds blended perfectly on Live, Smith's trumpet adds a Miles-esque cool that works well with the sound Spring Heel Jack tries to create.Largely improvised, The Sweetness of the Water begins aptly with "Track Four," a hodgepodge of table-top guitar noise a la Keith Rowe, ramshackle percussion in the distance, and Smith's wailing trumpet blurting out beautiful note after note. Guitar textures on "Quintet" harken to J. Spaceman's work on Live that surprisingly works well. On "Track One," which is actually track five, Spring Heel Jack revert to older territory, mixing a melodic downtempo piano piece with trumpet and harmonica. ..http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/spring-heel-jack-sweetness-water
Sickafoose creates broad soundscapes where unshakable, jam-like grooves are offset by arrangements that feel born of the moment, despite there being no way they could have been anything but carefully conceived. Folkloric acoustic guitar strumming and clean electric guitar lines get "Everyone is Going" off to a gentle start, but with trumpet, trombone and tenor sax weaving long, serpentine and off-kilter lines through the slowly solidifying rhythm, a foundation is set for Kneebody trumpetere Shane Endsley's warm-toned solo, leading to a hypnotic finale where shifting dynamics gradually dissolve for an electronics-filled coda that ethereally fades to black...http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=29567
